Naveen Subhas, Fangbai Wu, Michael G Fox, Nicholas Nacey, Fawad Aslam, Donna G Blankenbaker, Jamie T Caracciolo, Debra Anne DeJoseph, Matthew A Frick, Shari T Jawetz, Nicholas Said, Claire K Sandstrom, Akash Sharma, J Derek Stensby, Eric A Walker, Eric Y Chang
Evaluation for suspected inflammatory arthritis as a cause for chronic extremity joint pain often relies on imaging. It is essential that imaging results are interpreted in the context of clinical and serologic results to add specificity because there is significant overlap of imaging findings among the various types of arthritis. This document provides recommendations for imaging evaluation of specific types of inflammatory arthritis, including rheumatoid arthritis, seronegative spondyloarthropathy, gout, calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate disease (or pseudogout), and erosive osteoarthritis...
May 2023: Journal of the American College of Radiology: JACR